Yascha Mounk On The Week Democracy Died

Soldiers patrolling the famed Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France on July 20, 2016. Since the start of 2015, IS-inspired attackers have killed at least 235 people in France, by far the largest casualty rate of any Western country.

Harvard University lecturer Yascha Mounk sees the week of July 11th, 2016 as the beginning of the end of liberal democracy as we know it.

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The first steps of Brexit were set in motion, France was placed under a state of emergency following a terrorist attack in Nice, and Turkey reeled from a failed coup.

Mounk believes all of these events are linked, and suggests that the fleeting nature of democracy can be best studied in that one mid-July week.